#(eh that's my tag for this kind of thing)

[mikimeiko]

Arcane | Main universe vs AUs

[utilitycaster]

In the end, it is extremely vindicating to see the various accusations levied re: why people don't like Campaign 3 because like, in the end, most of the people who do like campaign 3 are desperately insecure people who cannot live with the idea that someone else doesn't love the thing they love. Like yeah, if it makes you feel better, sure, call me a stupid jesus freak centrist edgelord who isn't a Real Punk (who also apparently only wants feel-good liberal endings), and who only cares about stories where you can ship two men; you can conjure up an image of me sitting slack-jawed on a couch, face covered with cheeto dust, pointing at the TV and going HAHA LIGHTNING GOD GIVE BIG LIZARD A BELT. It won't make you feel better, is the thing, because you've decided total fandom consensus is the only thing that will ever make you happy, and so long as a handful of people are like "Campaign 3 isn't very good and I don't think Bells Hells are very good people within the context of that world, and outside of that context I don't really care about them" you will be miserable.

[memesandmusicalss]

uahh . another silly little oc sketch . shoutout lesbians

[bewitchingbloom]

Honestly, it's a good thing my attention span tends to be what it is. I can sit and listen to an audiobook all day as long as I have a game to play while doing so (so I get through a lot of books and games) AND I have problems sitting down to watch more than one to two episodes of a show at a time, so they last longer.

It works out, in the end.

[gffa]

Hi :)

I'm a pretty new SW fan, not because I didn't like the movies/hadn't seen them but because I grew up thinking it was extremely nerdy and would often feel awkward trying to bring up anything related to SW.

Fortunately I've finally reached and met awesome people who love SW just like I did but I feel like I lost A LOT of important stuff and there's so much content to the saga that it's extremely overwhelming for me to even think about diving into the whole SW universe and catch up.

I've been following you for a bit and your posts are just extremely interesting to me but again, sometimes I'm a little confused about certain things and so I wanted to ask you if you had any recommendations about where to start catching up (besides the movies which I will be binge watching soon hehe)

Hi! Welcome to Star Wars fandom, I hope you're having a good time! And around here we embrace being as nerdy as possible--I mean, fandom is such a mainstream thing these days, but I still like to embrace being a nerd about things because it leads to a lot more happiness, to just be silly and having a good time with the thing that tickles our brains.

But, yes, it is pretty overwhelming when you're first arriving, I still remember when I first came back to SW several years ago, having really only watched the movies as a kid, and there was All This Stuff and it seemed impossible to ever reach the deep end of the pool, and that was before the last seven years of books, games, movies, comics, etc. came out! I will hopefully set your mind at ease with this, though: The vast, vast majority of content that Star Wars puts out isn't anything I would consider "essential". It's wonderful, fantastic stuff! But a lot of us have just been around so long that we're combing through the finer details of supplementary material, rather than those being absolute Must-Read/Watch To Get A Feel For Star Wars.

My recommendations for How To Get A Feel For Star Wars is basically, start with the animated series and the live action series, they're the second layer of foundation in the Star Wars building, all the comics and novels and such will be built on them, and in this order: - The movies, this is the foundation on which everything else will be built. - The Clone Wars, season 1-6 are part of George Lucas' story and they're pretty essential (at least in this corner of SW fandom) to understanding wtf anyone is talking about or even watching many of the live action series. (Season 7 is fine and should be watched! It's just not part of Lucas' Star Wars.) - Star Wars: Rebels, starts off light-hearted but really is one of the best developed shows and does a lot of connective work between the prequels and the original trilogy. - The Mandalorian, set 9 years after Return of the Jedi, this show just massively blew up and while each season is slightly less well-done than the previous one (imo), it's well worth watching for wtf fandom is talking about half of the time. (The Book of Boba Fett is somewhat optional in this corner of fandom, but imo worth the watch. Generally, it should go Mando s1-2 --> TBOBF --> Mando s3.) - Obi-Wan Kenobi, because this corner of fandom lost our goddamned minds about it and still haven't gotten them back. - Andor, which is a really great show and, as long as you've watched Rogue One first, you'll follow along just fine. Does some solid connecting the dots between the prequels and the originals, but not as much as Rebels did. - Jedi: Fallen Order, you can look up a "movie" version on YouTube for the story of this game, which is a really good plot, has some great new characters, has some genuinely effective cameos, and will be referenced fairly often in other materials/in fandom.

If you're not feeling overwhelmed by All The Star Wars You've Consumed, I would personally suggest going for the comics next, over any of the novels. The novels are great! But the vast majority of them are self-contained and meant to be supplementary material even more than the comics, which get to tell bigger, more connected stories. I always suggest starting with: - Star Wars 2015 by Jason Aaron + Darth Vader 2015 by Kieron Gillen, both of which are really, solidly fantastic stories about the timeframe just after A New Hope, like there are so many absolutely banger lines that came out of these comics. I won't spoil them, just know that I think these were legitimately good comics, not just legitimately good Star Wars comics. (The first six issues of each series are meant to be read concurrently, but after that, you can just pick one and read in that specific title.) - Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 2017 by Charles Soule, which is set in the immediate aftermath of Revenge of the Sith. If Gillen's Vader keeps the mystique of the originals Unknowable Darth Vader, then Soule's Vader is more about the absolute BATSHIT DRAMA that is blending Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. This series is BANANAPANTS in the absolute best way. - Obi-Wan & Anakin 2015 by Charles Soule, which is a five-issue mini-series set between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and is both stunningly beautiful art and a solidly good plot that survives fairly serious analysis of. It's got some great worldbuilding details, but even more I like it for the look at why a young Anakin chooses to stay with the Jedi Order.

The one book I will recommend--for a list aimed at getting you caught up on what fandom is referencing--is the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover, that book is quoted constantly, and I'm not sure any other SW book has ever been as good as it is.

I feel like this is the best set of reading to get you familiarized with the source material that tends to come up the most! There's lots more that's really good, but once you get through the above, you can let me know what era or characters you're most interested in or if you have a specific question about something and want to see where it comes from!

But there's one thing to address and you're kinda going to have to figure out how to approach it on your own. 😂 There is a ton of stuff in SW fandom that's ostensibly from a book or a comic, but the version in fandom often comes from those who never actually read the books/haven't read them in a long time or are just picking them up from other fic and meta.

For example, the AgriCorps or Melida/Daan get referenced in fic and in posts all the time, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend reading the Jedi Apprentice series (I mean, I'm not your mom, feel free if you want to!) and often times how they're used in fic is not how they were used in the source material. Or the clones speaking Mando'a comes from the Legends books by Karen Traviss and she is a whole big can of ugly worms (both what she wrote and her IRL politics), as well as much of what she wrote was overwritten/discarded when The Clone Wars came out, but fandom likes the idea and so they put that into their fics (as they should, if they like it!). The idea of Mace using the lightsaber form of Vaapad is from Legends sources (the best source probably being the Shatterpoint novel by Matthew Stover, I'd guess?), same for his ability to see "shatterpoints" in the Force, which aren't part of Lucas' continuity or Disney's continuity, but fandom enjoys using them to flesh out Mace's character. This will get you started and, if you're looking for something more specific, feel free to ask, I enjoy these kinds of question--and don't feel you have to stick with any of the above if they're not fun for you. This is meant to be enjoyable, it's meant to have a good time, there's no wrong way to consume Star Wars media! <3

[m3llowm1sh]

mish’s relationships with the rd cast

[moonstandardtime]

i want to put link in isat. im sure hed do fine. the heros spirit endures

[cescalr]

some old [last year] SAE screenies.

Mod links under the cut:

Whiterun at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus <- my favourite Whiterun textures come from here, because i just like there being white in Whiterun, personally. But i mix and match, for variety's sake (also, the ground textures are green >-< rude and wrong. my beloved tundra deserves respect. She's yellowbrown and beautiful the way she is!!). Lovely walls, dark wood textures, stone paving, etc etc. The only issue is the slate texture - it's not seamless, so won't tile well. Good idea to replace it with something else.

Whiterun Floor Custom By BigHead <- having said the stone paving of Whiterun by JCS is great, that doesn't mean I wasn't using a different one. This is that one.

Whiterun Stairs Parallax <- kept changing my mind abt which one of these to use, then. But one of them, for sure.

Tomato's Whiterun - Complex Parallax Material <- pretty sure the windows and a few other esoteric unpictured textures are from here, like the slate? but it's been a year. Could be wrong abt the latter (the windows, though, for sure Tomato's).

Illustrious Whiterun SE - 8K - Parallax - Complex Materials <- definitely stuff from here, I use it as a baseline basically all the time. [not right now though, currently basing on Boreal Whiterun - Complex Parallax for something a lil' different. Not too different, I refuse not to use Whiterun by JCS' white walls texture.] Anyway - I think I used some wood assets from here, plus doors and nails and such minutia.

I cannot for the life of me remember which banner mod i was using, exactly. Designs of the Nords SE, Sigils of Skyrim 4K-2K, Rally's Banners of Skyrim or Ennead Banners for the Solstheim merchant banners used by Abstract Whiterun.

Better Floors - Whiterun, pretty sure! Using it now, anyway.

Royal Wooden Floor RETEXTURE FOR Mrf's Solitude <- personally remapped these to whiterun, for use in the temple. Doesn't show up in these shots, but thought i'd shout it out anyway. Thought Kyne deserved a nicer flooring!

Imnot A Whiterun Field Grass Parallax <- gorgeous Whiterun ground texture. Looks super nice ingame and blends rlly well at seams between texturesets.

Parallax Earth Floor Whiterun + GG's Impoverished Whiterun with it's fancy main roads option, for a muddier backstreets and dryer main pathways look.

Ivy Whiterun Well - Whiterun Textures Patch <- Ivy's well is really nice <3. It didn't have the patch for using local Whiterun textures (default uses solitude textures, syk) when i took these screenies. But it does now!

Spaghetti's Cities - Whiterun <- pretty sure

An Abstract Skyrim - Whiterun <- for sure

Also, a since-deleted mod [proof i found of its existance, lol] by Skyklf, which has been superseded by Modular Whiterun. Er, probably, anyway; the market stall roof textures were from the og mod at least, personally tweaked. MW isn't exactly the same as the castle 3.0 edition of Skyklf's Whiterun overhaul (again, since deleted, now only Whiterun 2.0 is available - sadly a very buggy mod), which is a shame. I really liked that version. I am currently using MW, though not all of it.

Whiterun Market Archway - Spaghetti's Cities - AIO (or Whiterun) Patch <- patch wasn't available when I did this prev list. Glad it is now! am currently using it, also. For the AIO now, though.

The Bannered Mare Redesigned <- really nice mod!!

Whiterun Horse Statue - Retexture, though I prefer the one in Amon Textures HD AIO + BENDr these days [if BENDr is available for a textureset, rest assured I'm using it.]

Shad0wAng3l09's Whiterun interiors patches. Absolute godsend! I hate having to pick one or the other of these, they're all so nice. Pictured is arcadia's cauldron, I think. I mean, there's a cauldron.

Lux suite + Obsidian Weathers and Seasons, I think [this is memory only, because you can't really tell just by looking at it], with Amethyst - Weathers and Reshade preset's vanilla HDR [now outdated CS addon, unsupported] and Kreate presets. No reshade was used on these shots, I'm pretty sure! Just pure CS. Currently experimenting with NAT.CS III... haven't found a reshade I like very much yet. I'll get there, though. I'll get there.

[quibbs126]

Every now and again (particularly when I’m bored at work), I’ll see the Evoland 2 tag as one I follow and I’ll think “oh I wonder if there’s anything new there!” and then I look in the Latest section of the tag and no, no it’s still just me

I really don’t know why I keep doing this or what I expect doing so. This is not like the Berserk fandom on tumblr where it’s just relatively small but there will be a couple new things every day, there is no fandom here. It is just me and @23456df, who only posts occasionally

I think I’m just delusional at this rate. Actually no, not think, I just am, because this is far from the only thing I’m like this with

[eltheabberation]

Short little thing I typed up

“What is this?”

Yan turned over the small, see-through bag in his hands, brow furrowed as he looked at the contents.

“It’s a gift,” Houji said. “For Valentine’s Day.”

Yan looked up at him. “Isn’t that a western thing?”

“We have in Japan too.”

“Hm.” He opened the bag and pulled out a piece of chocolate. He glanced back over at Houji, eyes narrowed. “I can’t eat this.”

“It’s traditional.” Houji smiled. Yan muttered something under his breath, then sighed and put the chocolate back.

“Thank you,” he said begrudgingly.

“You have to pay me back next month.”

“Or I could kill you right here and now,” he said. Houji chuckled.

“Oh, could you?”

In response, he brought a hand up to Houji’s head and ruffled his hair. Houji narrowed his eyes.

“You are terrible,” he said, running his fingers through his hair, trying to brush the loose strands back into place.

“I’d have to be” — Yan smiled — “to put up with you.”

Houji paused for a moment. Finally, he pressed a kiss to Yan’s cheek.

“Happy Valentine’s Day,” he said. Yan turned away and closed his eyes.

“Happy Valentine’s Day.”

[doctrpepper]

have you guys heard of following tags. this is the future of tumbler

[flecks-of-stardust]

a side effect of figuring out what flowers i associate with my characters is that whenever i see a dandelion i go :D prayer!

[eurrdyce]

i think i have thoughts !

[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2025

Basia's Palace - Basia Bulat (2025)

[satorisoup]

hihi fwiends !! i just wanted to make a quick apology to all of you for the amount of posts i posted on kirishima’s birthday (⸝⸝o̴̶̷᷄ ·̭ o̴̶̷̥᷅⸝⸝ ྀི) i know it must’ve flooded your dashies </3

if your dashie is still flooded with those posts, please know i provided a tag to block in case of this !! i’ll have it in the taggies here as well <3

dun’ worry, eiji & kou were the only blorbies i was majorly celebrating, so there wont be anything that big until next year !! ^_^

forewarning : i will be answering askies soon & catching up with tag games, ill try to space them out (im very sorry for the lateness) so its not flooding your dashie too much :< thank you all for your kindness !! I WUV YOUUU !! mwuah !! <3 🍓

[waywardsalt]

for the zelda ask game: 🎭😔👊⛩️

🎭 When you play Zelda games, do you imagine being Link yourself, or is Link a separate character to you? Basically, are you Link, or is Link a separate character?

I always consider Link to be his own separate character. There's juuust enough to him most games that he has his own character, and I'm not usually one to go full self-insert with video game characters unless that's what the game is really going for. So I generally consider him to be his own separate character.

😔 Least Favorite Zelda character?

Hhhmmmmmmm normally I would say Jolene (and i think she was my answer for a similar ask game a few years ago) but I'm trying to get myself to at least somewhat appreciate her so it would be kind of counterproductive to say it's her. But it's Jolene.

👊 Favorite Zelda Villain/Boss?

Yeah no Bellum is my favorite Zelda villain... also my favorite boss! I think he's a silly little thing and a lot of fun to think wayyyy to hard about and I really like the variety between the three segments of his extended fight, plus just on a story level his whole fight is really cool. I would normally say I wish more was done with him but I can make do with crumbs so it's fine actually. I kind of want a little plushie of him.

⛩️ Favorite Zelda Dungeon/Location?

Hm... it's hard to decide on just one favorite dungeon, I've always been fond of albw's dungeons and both oot and mm have really good dungeons, but I think I'd have to pick the fire sanctuary from Skyward Sword. I really like sksw's dungeons a lot, and the fire sanctuary especially just... looks really nice and is fun to spend time figuring out. I think it's the one I enjoy the most, while the others are just fine or have some snag to them. With locations, I’m a fan of albw’s Hyrule and Lorule, and Clock Town is probably my favorite town in the entire series.